In the long-run, I still think that a move to digital distribution will benefit consumers.
At a certain point, the played with digital distribution is essentially free for the producer.
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That seems to be persuading even Harry Potter to look more closely at digital distribution.
There's digital distribution like Steam and, increasingly, downloads from the major console and game makers.
For digital distribution also blurs rather the geographic monopolies that many news organisations have had.
This digital distribution channel enables this: You can have a game that's an ongoing service.
The advent of digital distribution does not, in itself, threaten his power in Hollywood.
Until then it will have to continue its losing battle against the digital distribution of online bootlegs.
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One of those members was Peter Levinsohn, President of Digital Distribution and New Media for Fox Filmed Entertainment.
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Right now 91 million households have DVD players but that could change if digital distribution continues to grow.
Newspaper publishers hope that this emphasis on distinctive content may ease the move from print to digital distribution.
Once digital distribution takes over, the basic mechanics of a console interface will shut down most casual pirates.
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Side-stepping the traditional publisher model is easier than ever given the twin advents of crowd-funding an digital distribution.
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Thanks to digital distribution, players now spend less time at the local game store and more time in game.
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Digital distribution will save the studios millions on the film prints that now tour the country's megaplexes in canisters.
Yes, intellectual property rights have become a sensitive issue in the age of instantaneous digital distribution, and rightly so.
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Digital distribution is all about volume, or at least the promise of volume.
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Digital distribution removes the high set-up costs and everything else changes with it.
With prices falling due to digital distribution for movies, music, even books, is the same fate in store for games?
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The advent of the internet and more powerful computing that made online piracy possible also made possible legal digital distribution.
Digital distribution networks like Xbox Live Arcade and PlayStation Network have opened up new opportunities for independent developers like inXile Entertainment.
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"We are thrilled to count Amazon as a digital distribution outlet for our television group, " said Ken Werner, President, Warner Bros.
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Ubisoft may need to provide more incentive than a unified launcher to get gamers to install a fourth digital distribution app.
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Which is only one of the reasons why Blu-ray is generating more revenue for Hollywood, instead of being killed by digital distribution.
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Digital distribution sales of videogames are taking an increasingly large share of the market, compared to sales by physical retailers like GameStop.
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Steam is a completely different monster in digital distribution and cloud storage.
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Ubisoft joins Valve, Electronic Arts and Gamestop in the digital distribution space as it launches Uplay PC , available for download immediately.
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Fox will take an 8% distribution fee like Paramount did in traditional markets and a 6% fee for digital distribution and electronic sell-through.
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Technology cannot cut the cost of hiring Madonna, but it can cut many other costs, especially as digital distribution channels begin to multiply.
The publisher is expanding their focus on the free-to-play and mobile game markets, and releasing its digital distribution store Origin to Android.
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